Three women in Skagway, ca. 1900

• Main Author: Unknown
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Gold rushes; Teachers; Women > Clothing & dress; Bushell; Daisy; Mrs; Doerrer; Laura; Doubler; Lou; Skagway; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/7057

By 1900, American and European women made up 23% of Skagway's population. Some were housewives or nuns. Others were secretaries, taught school, wrote for newspapers, cared for the sick, or ran shops and other businesses. This photo portrait, taken around 1900, shows three Skagway women wearing...